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P5113 doesn't want to play some videos

Hi everyone. Recently I bought a new GT P5113. In all the tablet reviews they say that it can play easily almost all AVI, MKV, MP4 etc video files, but when I try to play them with the stock video player I get a message that video is not supported. I dont think that this is normal.
My tab is running the latest firmware update from Samsung ULGB2 4.0.4 or sth like that. Any ideas, except installing 3rd party players? Somebody else with the same problem?
Thanks!

what files exactly wont play and are they stored locally?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free&hl=en
try bsplayer, it should hardware playback files with a HW onscreen to let you know.
It plays all my upnp hosted video files just fine, i had some issues with streamed files with the stock player. assuming my p3110 uses the same decoding process.

Thanks for the info. It wont play divx and xvid avi files, also it doesnt want to play mkv and mp4, which is completely strange. The files are stored on the externsl microsd. I wonder if i need to make a hard reset...
Edit: BSplayer plays videos only in SW mode

celeronix said:
Thanks for the info. It wont play divx and xvid avi files, also it doesnt want to play mkv and mp4, which is completely strange. The files are stored on the externsl microsd. I wonder if i need to make a hard reset...
Edit: BSplayer plays videos only in SW mode
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yeah something is not right mp4 should be the tester as they always play no matter what. try it and let us know

I fixed it with a simple restart. Firmware bug obviously Now we are OK

why not give Dice Player a try?
I used to have MX Player but switched to Dice Player.

need help with xbmc youtube mx player error.

Hopefully someone can help me with this error I can't find a solution anywhere. I'm using xbmc on my transformer and it's set to use MX player to play most of the video on it. My only issue is that for all youtube videos mx Player keeps giving me "can't play this video" all other types of videos work fine. Is there a fix that I can apply that will allow mx player to play youtube streams? If not, is there a way I can set in the playercorefactory.xml to use the internal DVDplayer for only youtube streams and mx player for everything else? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue with MX player and youtube streams? Any help would be appreciated

dknlght said:
Hopefully someone can help me with this error I can't find a solution anywhere. I'm using xbmc on my transformer and it's set to use MX player to play most of the video on it. My only issue is that for all youtube videos mx Player keeps giving me "can't play this video" all other types of videos work fine. Is there a fix that I can apply that will allow mx player to play youtube streams? If not, is there a way I can set in the playercorefactory.xml to use the internal DVDplayer for only youtube streams and mx player for everything else? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue with MX player and youtube streams? Any help would be appreciated
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I couldn't view any You Tube videos, so I sideloaded flash onto my transformer. This wasn't too successful, so then I downloaded the new YouTube app which is working fine.
As for your xbmc problem - I don't have the app, just know it is a multi media center/player.

Theziggy said:
I couldn't view any You Tube videos, so I sideloaded flash onto my transformer. This wasn't too successful, so then I downloaded the new YouTube app which is working fine.
As for your xbmc problem - I don't have the app, just know it is a multi media center/player.
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Are you saying that you were able to get mx player to play youtube stream by updating the youtube app ? I'll have to try it and see thanks

dknlght said:
Are you saying that you were able to get mx player to play youtube stream by updating the youtube app ? I'll have to try it and see thanks
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Sorry, no. I was able to see video in the YouTube app whereas before I couldn't get any video to play in any browser. I know I had to sideload flash onto my TF101 - so whether it helped may also be a factor.

alright, so i find myself in same boat. Only thing is, I cant play Dailymotion videos which gives me same error using xbmc+mx player combo. have you found any solution?, I tried BS Player, Dice Player and making sure they were the external players by changing playercorefactory.xml file. but still no luck. I also tried switching decoder under mxplayer and all other players to only use hw decoder or sw decoder, but no luck.

MX Player and MMS Video

Hi All,
I was wondering if there is a way to get MX Player to play MMS video files that are sent over text. I deleted my stock video player, not knowing that MX Player would not recognize or play videos sent over text (MMS). Is there a way to have MX Player play MMS videos?
Thanks!

MX Player should play all video files. Try changing decoder to S/W.
If you can, please upload that file.

josuearisty said:
MX Player should play all video files. Try changing decoder to S/W.
If you can, please upload that file.
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HUZZAH! That did it. I turned on S/W and it worked like a champ. Thank you!

MX Player HW+ Problems

Hello I've been having one really annoying issue with my beloved MX player which I love which is that the HW+ decoder either tells me it won't play videos I have through Plex app I have stored on computer or that it switches from HW+ to SW and SW doesn't play the videos properly they lag or play out of sync or the app crashes.
Now I know these videos where HW+ fails to work actually has played in the past though I would say that I recently flashed stock sony rom then using CWM flashed a custom rom but I did all this to try get HW+ to play my plex videos where it wouldn't either switch to SW or not play at all when the videos have played fine in the past.
I use MX player 1.7.40 (ARMv7 Neon)
Custom Codec 1.7.32 for AC3 Audio support
Phoenix Final Custom Rom for Xperia P using Nemeis Kernal 6.3
I understand that you guys need the logcat information and I read the thread about how do do that but I ran into a problem that when I downloaded the logcat app for mx player it returns an error "Cannot access the system log"

RyuBlade said:
Hello I've been having one really annoying issue with my beloved MX player which I love which is that the HW+ decoder either tells me it won't play videos I have through Plex app I have stored on computer or that it switches from HW+ to SW and SW doesn't play the videos properly they lag or play out of sync or the app crashes.
Now I know these videos where HW+ fails to work actually has played in the past though I would say that I recently flashed stock sony rom then using CWM flashed a custom rom but I did all this to try get HW+ to play my plex videos where it wouldn't either switch to SW or not play at all when the videos have played fine in the past.
I use MX player 1.7.40 (ARMv7 Neon)
Custom Codec 1.7.32 for AC3 Audio support
Phoenix Final Custom Rom for Xperia P using Nemeis Kernal 6.3
I understand that you guys need the logcat information and I read the thread about how do do that but I ran into a problem that when I downloaded the logcat app for mx player it returns an error "Cannot access the system log"
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If you are using custom rom, they might have modified the Android Media Framework. It will break the MX Player's HW+. If it's not working Just turn it off & use HW instead.
MX Player 1.8 final is expected to get alternative HW+ engine that may work in most of the devices. Kindly be patient till that
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Can't play HEVC video file

Hey, seems like it is not possible to play a HEVC encoded video file? It is very laggy and can't play smoothly.
Anybody any idea?

Xkalbert said:
Hey, seems like it is not possible to play a HEVC encoded video file? It is very laggy and can't play smoothly.
Anybody any idea?
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Tried using MX Player in HW+ mode? I don't think hevc/heif is fully working, they're going to support it, but literally not even a mention as to whether the camera will even recod in these formats.